filial
adjective
of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter.
filially
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a word derived from
filial.
Example Sentences
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She was expert at standing filially listening to them at the elevator, while all the time her thumb steadily pressed the elevator signal.
From The Job An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis
Mrs. Gordon filially groans because the reprint was not more extensive, and without endorsing her own very high opinion of her father's work, it is possible to agree with her.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
It was very faint, almost a whisper through the air, but he filially got it down and he is positive it is correct.
From The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory by Cleveland Moffett
Now all was filially settled, to borrow my own words, I needed no monitor to tell me it would be foolish, useless, even wicked, not to reconcile myself to my destiny.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney
There is a filially pious Lally; a couple of liberal Lameths.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
